Integrating ecological and community science data to understand patterns of colour polymorphism and social behaviour at the northern range limit of a plethodontid salamander

Alexia McCormick; Julia L. Riley

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0332501

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Integrating ecological and community science data to understand patterns of colour polymorphism and social behaviour at the northern range limit of a plethodontid salamander

Alexia McCormick,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9628-920X

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Julia L. Riley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jriley@mta.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7691-6910

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Integrating ecological and community science data to understand patterns of colour polymorphism and social behaviour at the northern range limit of a plethodontid salamander

Alexia McCormick,
Julia L. Riley

Published: September 23, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332501

About the Authors

Alexia McCormick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9628-920X

Julia L. Riley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jriley@mta.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7691-6910

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

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